1. Criteria for choosing cool and detoxifying ingredients
Hot summer weather easily makes the body tired and dehydrated. Therefore, when cooking tea to cool down, combining ingredients that are cool, rich in vitamins and minerals is paramount.
Beans: Whole green beans, black beans, lotus seeds... are top choices thanks to their heat-clearing, detoxifying and good sleep benefits.
Detoxifying ingredients: Black jelly (sương sáo), sterculia latex, snow bird's nest, or aloe vera not only create a cool feeling when enjoying but are also very good for the digestive system and sunny skin.
Natural light sweetness: Replace white granulated sugar with rock sugar or jaggery sugar so that the sweet soup has a mild sweetness, is not sticky and does not cause internal heat.
2. Preliminary processing secrets and standard sweet soup cooking techniques
To keep the sweet soup fully nutritious and have a perfect texture, you need to memorize a few small tips when standing on the stove:
Tips for simmering beans to soften quickly: Beans should be soaked in warm water for 2 - 4 hours before cooking so that the beans are hydrated enough, when simmering they will quickly cook soft, mushy without being mushy.
Sugar-absorbing" technique: When the beans are soft, take out the bean residue and stir-fry separately with rock sugar for about 5-10 minutes before pouring it back into the broth. This method helps the beans absorb the rich sweetness from deep inside.
Maintain the crispness of aloe vera/almonds: For aloe vera, after cutting the pomegranate seeds, it is necessary to soak them in salt, lemon and quickly blanch them in boiling water and then soak them immediately in a bowl of iced water. This action helps aloe vera completely remove the viscous and bitterness and maintain the crunchy and cheerful texture.
3. Trendy sweet soup variations for summer 2026
Besides traditional sweet soups, you can refresh your family menu with modern, eye-catching sweet soups:
Snow Swallow Beauty Tea: The combination of goji berries, red apples, longan and snow swallow creates a nutritious tea bowl, helping to moisturize the skin from deep inside under the summer sun.
Grapefruit sweet soup: A challenge to dexterity with crispy grapefruit flesh, no longer with a bit of bitterness, blended with fatty coconut milk.
Herbal sweet potato jelly sweet soup: A refreshing sweet soup with chewy sweet potatoes, served with grass jelly sprinkled with a little unsweetened fresh milk, extremely stimulating to taste.
